Alfieri plays many roles in “A View from a Bridge”; narrator, chorus, character, but Miller has used Alfieri mainly as a chorus. The particular chorus he is based on is the Greek chorus, from Greek tragedy. I say based because Miller has adapted Alfieri to suit a modern audience In Greek tragedy, the Greek chorus was used to reinforce the moral story. Alfieri does this in the final chorus. Alfieri and the Greek chorus also remind the audience how powerless they are. This makes the audience connect with them, as they too know something terrible is going to happen and there is nothing they can do to prevent it. In certain parts of play the audience gets so involved, that they forget that Alfieri is narrating. They believe that he too is a spectator, watch from a bridge. This is what I believe the title means. It symbolizes that Alfieri and audience are above the action, and can’t interfere. They title tells us about the contrast between Alfieri’s panoramic view and Eddie’s tunnelled one. A bridge has two sides, this symbolizes to the two laws, (moral and legal) and the two cultures, (Sicilian and American). It symbolizes that because Alfieri and the audience are upon the bridge, they can see clearly both sides, and can make his judgement for the greater good, from purely what he sees from the view from the bridge, without getting emotionally involved. However it is entirely different for the characters on the ground, they cannot see everything. The vision is more constricted, especially Eddie’s, “his eyes were like tunnels”. This metaphor indicates that Eddies can only see one linear path in front of him, and there is no way he will bend to any other. Law is central to the play. The whole play is about choosing family or law. That is why Alfieri is in the play; Miller has put a law figure to challenge the community. At the same time it isn’t Alfieri who is battling them, it is Eddie. The repetition of the word law, reinforces this idea. In the final chorus...